There's talk about a high(er) end package that would support 64-bit. In which case the current subscription users would be royaly shafted.
Rest assured that the dev arc of Altium Designer is still very robust, continuous, and unaffected. These two products serve different markets and this will round out our offering with CircuitMaker/CircuitStudio servicing the start up lower end of the market, Altium Designer servicing the mainstream and Atina servicing the high-end. As Altium Designer is our mainstream offering, that implies that this is where the majority of the commercial users are. So, very much still developed. As for information, look for glimpses very soon. However, we have been talking about this via our public investor meetings for sometime.
There's talk about a high(er) end package that would support 64-bit. In which case the current subscription users would be royaly shafted.So, yeah, you may call it "being shafted", if you expected them to give a full upgrade to Altium users, but if you already pay for Altium as it is, you most probably like it. And they are promising to keep developing and maintaining it as a middle-end product.
Most people don't really need the 64-bit, multi-core, etc features...
Most people don't really need the 64-bit, multi-core, etc features...
I'm going to disagree here... If they could speed up polygon pours using multiple cores, I would use it daily. Hourly. Like, right now... Pretty sure anyone above the hobbyist level (and they won't be buying) has a need for that.
I'm curious to check improvement in Diptrace 3.0 (and would like to continue promote this Ukranian team)
I will be pleased to discuss this with you, but that's maybe a little bit out topic here.
There's talk about a high(er) end package that would support 64-bit. In which case the current subscription users would be royaly shafted.So, yeah, you may call it "being shafted", if you expected them to give a full upgrade to Altium users, but if you already pay for Altium as it is, you most probably like it. And they are promising to keep developing and maintaining it as a middle-end product.
I expect a product I pay 1k5$ a year for maintenance for to support multi-core and 64-bit. Failing that, I would like to see it on the horizon somewhere. The message that that will never happen is hard to understand. 64-bit has been around for 15 years. Me expecting full support for those features is justified for a mid-range product. Hell, it is warranted for a low end product.
Rest assured that the dev arc of Altium Designer is still very robust, continuous, and unaffected. These two products serve different markets and this will round out our offering with CircuitMaker/CircuitStudio servicing the start up lower end of the market, Altium Designer servicing the mainstream and Atina servicing the high-end. As Altium Designer is our mainstream offering, that implies that this is where the majority of the commercial users are. So, very much still developed. As for information, look for glimpses very soon. However, we have been talking about this via our public investor meetings for sometime.
Any guesses about when this year ATINA might be announced?
Atina is shooting for the Cadence/mentor market, and it will be a very tough nut to crack. Those customers don't change willy-nilly, and new customers will be hard to get, expect it to be very low volume.
I wish this would go away. They can charge money for plugins, like they do with the PDN analyzer. But another product? Who is going to buy it? Like, "I have an Altium license, but lets thow 10.000 dollars at them, maybe this time they add features, that matter. Like FPGA development.
I made the switch to Proteus & DipTrace several years ago & have never looked back.
According to my account representative AD18 is 64 bit. Road show by Altium management in late May so we'll find out for sure then.